Researchers have announced that an insulin pill has successfully reduced night-time blood glucose levels in 180 patients with type 2 diabetes. That's pretty exciting, because before this, it was assumed that insulin wouldn't survive the digestive juices of the stomach, so couldn't be delivered orally - hence the dependence on insulin injections. But this new mid-stage trial suggests for the first time that given the right dose, insulin tablets could really work. Most importantly, if these findings are verified and repeated in additional trials,